DoNews reported on April 18 that on April 18, the 10th Lenovo Innovation and Technology Conference (2024 Lenovo Tech World) with the theme of "AI for All, Let the World Be Full of AI" was successfully held in Shanghai.
The conference comprehensively demonstrated the core proposition, strategic picture and latest technological achievements of Lenovo Group based on hybrid artificial intelligence judgment, and released a new species of AI - AI PC series products with built-in personal agent "Lenovo Xiaotian", which is also the real artificial intelligence personalized computer in the current Chinese market. At the same time, it also released innovative applications and solutions such as enterprise intelligent twins and Lenovo Wanquan heterogeneous intelligent computing platform.
Facing the new era of rapid implementation of artificial intelligence, Yang Yuanqing, chairman and CEO of Lenovo Group, emphasized, "The second half of artificial intelligence must be from technological breakthroughs to the stage of landing applications, which requires us to accumulate user feedback in practical applications, continuously improve and continue to innovate." And at this moment, I think the key word is 'landing'. ”
At the conference, a number of the world's top AI technology leaders and experts discussed the future picture of the technical architecture, ecological cooperation and industrial construction that promote the implementation and inclusiveness of artificial intelligence. Qualcomm President and CEO Cristiano Ammon, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, and AMD Chairman and CEO Lisa Su shared their cutting-edge innovations in the field of artificial intelligence, and said that they will continue to deepen their cooperation with Lenovo to jointly promote the integration of artificial intelligence into life and accelerate the intelligent transformation of all walks of life.
Stefano Domenicali, Chairman and CEO of F1, Wu Yongming, CEO of Alibaba Group, Zhang Yaqin, Dean of the Intelligent Industry Research Institute (AIR) of Tsinghua University and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Li Yuansheng, the first director of China's Antarctic Kunlun Station and a pioneer of China's Antarctic deep ice core science, and Lu Chuan, a famous director, also appeared at the conference, bringing observation, research and application of artificial intelligence in different fields.
Defining the future, hybrid AI is the only way for AI to be inclusive
At present, a disruptive change triggered by artificial intelligence is quietly unfolding in all walks of life, and human beings are facing another kind of "intelligence". In this regard, Yang Yuanqing believes that AI is essentially a technical means, and with its assistance, human imagination will be more easily transformed into reality. "AI, the so-called 'Artificial Intelligence', is perhaps more appropriately called 'Augmented Intelligence'. ”
At the conference, the famous Chinese director Lu Chuan elaborated on the impact of artificial intelligence on artistic creation based on his own practice, "AI can greatly improve the visual speed of creativity, help thousands of young people with film dreams, cross the threshold of funds, and directly present the great movie in their minds." At the same time, Lu Chuan also announced that he will work with Lenovo to build an "AI Imaging Lab" to open up a new world for the use of AI in the film industry.
In Lenovo's view, hybrid AI is the inevitable path. In his speech, Yang Yuanqing pointed out that the public model is a catalyst and accelerator for the popularization of AI, but there are limitations in terms of network speed, cloud efficiency, cost considerations, and data privacy.
In the hybrid AI framework, the personal model and the enterprise model, as well as the personal agent and enterprise agent developed on the basis of it, will coexist and complement the public model to provide more personalized services and meet the needs of privacy protection.
The personal agent will run on the personal intelligent terminal or edge device through the large model compression technology, receive instructions in a natural interactive way, and better reason and take action through the information stored on the device such as personal travel records and shopping preferences, and it can even predict the next task according to your thinking pattern and behavior frequency, and take the initiative to make suggestions and find solutions independently.
Enterprises will also benefit from enterprise agents. It is scattered in multiple terminal equipment and infrastructure of the enterprise, and will be able to learn and reason about a large amount of enterprise data, support enterprise operation decision-making, improve management efficiency and improve productivity while ensuring information security.
Top global industry partners share the same view. Pat Kissinger argues that not every piece of information has to exist in the public cloud, and that a "hybrid AI" environment is necessary.
The most private data deserves the highest level of security and should not exist on the public cloud. Just like Lenovo's panoramic AI layout from "pocket to cloud", Intel has created a "responsible AI" framework. The two companies are currently working together to develop AI PCs and build a vibrant AI ecosystem in China to enhance the global AI ecosystem experience.
"With the advent of the AI era, Qualcomm is pleased to partner with Lenovo to bring this revolution to a wide range of users," said Cristiano Ammon. The PC industry is at an exciting time, and we look forward to innovating with industry leaders like Lenovo to create the next generation of AI PCs that deliver intelligent, personalized experiences to users." ”
Lenovo advocates a hybrid AI framework, which is a mix of public and private large models. The next step in the development of large models is the agents based on large models. Dr. Rui Yong, senior vice president and chief technology officer of Lenovo Group, said that the large model is very capable on the one hand, but has limitations on the other hand. We need to "build on our strengths". "Growth" means that we will continue to carry forward and enhance the powerful capabilities of large models. "Long" means that we want to build an agent technology based on a large model to truly solve the problem of application scenarios.
Agents need to have the ability to know the boundaries of their capabilities, and know when and what tools should be called. In addition, it also needs to have active perception, intention understanding, the ability to decompose complex tasks, and long-term and short-term memory mechanisms.
A new species of AI has emerged, and the three pillars promote the application of hybrid AI
With the increasing maturity of AI technology, artificial intelligence will gradually enter a new stage of application from technological breakthroughs. Yang Yuanqing pointed out that the implementation is inseparable from the coverage of smart devices, smart infrastructure, smart solutions and services, which are also the three pillars of Lenovo Group's promotion of AI inclusiveness.
For individual users, the most convenient path to an AI experience is to use a personal computing device with a built-in personal agent. Now, this game-changing product is on the scene. At the conference site, it took the lead in launching a real AI PC series product for the Chinese market, which was handed over to Yang Yuanqing by Lenovo Morningstar foot robot and released.
According to Yang Yuanqing, this new AI species has five characteristics. The first feature is that it is equipped with a personalized AI Agent-Lenovo Xiaotian. Xiaotian has a built-in personal model, which can interact naturally with users.
It can truly understand your natural language and intentions, is good at learning and reflecting, has a superhuman memory, knows its responsibilities and boundaries, can form a logical and rigorous chain of reasoning, and can break down complex tasks and make plans.
In addition, AI PC also has a combination of CPU, GPU, and NPU powerful local heterogeneous computing power, has the ability to establish a personal knowledge base for each owner, connects to an open AI application ecosystem, and protects personal data and privacy. Yang Yuanqing said that with these five characteristics, the PC will no longer be a Personal Computer, but an AI Personalized Computer.
Taking the harsh scientific research work scene as an example, in Li Yuansheng's view, the scientific research urgently needs an efficient, safe, and really helpful "all-round work assistant", and these AI PCs equipped with "Lenovo Xiaotian" can help. "With the ThinkPad and Lenovo Xiaotian, our work will definitely be enhanced. ”
Luca Rossi, executive vice president of Lenovo Group and president of the Intelligent Devices Business Group (IDG), said that today's AI PC is just the beginning. We will continue to bring more new AI-powered devices to the market and lead the global AI revolution by adopting a rolling product strategy. Lenovo is working with the industry's largest silicon and operating system partners to create superior devices that meet the high-performance demands of AI.
For enterprise-level customers, due to the more balanced distribution of computing power in the cloud, edge, and device, the implementation of artificial intelligence and enterprise intelligent twins is increasingly dependent on a multi-level hybrid AI infrastructure that covers "device-edge-cloud-network-intelligence".
Kirk Skaugen, Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG), said that Lenovo's intelligent infrastructure will be more applied at the edge and in the cloud through next-generation hybrid AI solutions to ensure that customers and partners can apply AI faster and fully unleash the power of enterprise data, so as to make data AI. The newly released Lenovo Heterogeneous Intelligent Computing Platform will provide the best computing power through intelligent matching, improve efficiency based on core algorithms, and achieve green computing power through liquid cooling technology innovation.
At the same time, as hybrid intelligent infrastructure becomes more popular, the requirements for design, deployment, management, and maintenance will become more complex, and more comprehensive and systematic service capabilities and customized solutions that are more in line with customer needs will also emerge.
Huang Jianheng, Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of Solution Service Group (SSG), said that based on Lenovo's practical experience in new IT intelligent transformation and long-term accumulated technical capabilities, Lenovo's solution service products have been fully upgraded to Portfolio 2.0 in the era of hybrid artificial intelligence, with full-cycle services and customized industry solutions, and will take enterprise intelligent twins as the core to drive and help customers innovate and transform their business models through intelligent transformation consulting.
From smart devices to smart infrastructure, Lenovo and AMD have delivered a series of industry-leading solutions to advance computing in their 30-year partnership. "AMD fully shares the vision of "AI for All" and works closely with Lenovo to develop hardware and software to transform PCs into truly intelligent and personalized devices, bringing the best AI PCs to market, and leading the era of AI computing with Lenovo.
Accelerate intelligent transformation and jointly create a new decade of AI
At present, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces has become a consensus to help China's economic development. Yang Yuanqing pointed out that hybrid artificial intelligence is the representative of new quality productivity, which will greatly accelerate the intelligent transformation of all walks of life. The science and technology industry must seize this once-in-a-century growth opportunity, establish ecological alliances, form industry synergies, open innovation, and seek common development.
Liu Jun, Executive Vice President of Lenovo Group and President of Lenovo China, said that the huge opportunities brought by the AI era require industrial synergy and ecological synergy. Lenovo will continue to invest in and accelerate the development of the three major ecosystems of Tianxi, Wanquan and Qingtian, and work with leading ecosystem partners in the industry to launch and prepare for the industrial ecological alliance to jointly create the ultimate AI experience, inclusive AI terminal ecological products, computing power systems, and enterprise and industry intelligent twin solutions.
In fact, Lenovo Group has carried out in-depth cooperation and joint innovation in the field of artificial intelligence with a number of domestic enterprises and organizations. Taking Alibaba as an example, Lenovo has carried out in-depth cooperation with a number of Alibaba's business lines, including application ecology, to jointly create AI PCs and other artificial intelligence terminal devices, as well as enterprise intelligent twin solutions.
In addition, Zhang Yaqin said that Tsinghua Intelligent Industry Research Institute and Lenovo Group have been carrying out industry-university-research cooperation, and in the future, it is expected that the two sides can work together to develop intelligent body technology, accelerate the implementation of the industry, and jointly promote the transformation of the intelligent era.
2024 marks Lenovo's 40th anniversary. At the pledge meeting for the new fiscal year held a few days ago, Yang Yuanqing announced that leading the transformation of artificial intelligence is the new mission of the group in the next ten years. At the conference, Yang Yuanqing once again reaffirmed that Lenovo will continue to innovate independently, accelerate transformation, and create a new decade with artificial intelligence as the theme.
Yang Yuanqing emphasized that Lenovo Group will be committed to promoting the inclusiveness, fairness and inclusiveness of artificial intelligence, and creating a sustainable future that "fills the world with AI and love".
In addition, the 2024 F1 Lenovo China Grand Prix, sponsored by Lenovo Group, will be held in Shanghai from April 19 to 21. Speaking at the TW, Stefano Domenicali said, "We are delighted that F1 and Lenovo will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the F1 Chinese Grand Prix.
Lenovo's comprehensive technical support for Formula 1 not only promotes the deep integration of technology and motorsport, but also demonstrates its strong commitment to diversity and inclusion. ”